Drawing routes, editing tracks and exporting

Drawing a route

Open Draw a route from the menu, then tap the map to add points in order. With Follow paths on, each section between two points is calculated along paths and roads by openrouteservice.org, for the profile you choose: hiking, walking, cycling, mountain biking or road bike. Distance and elevation gain update as each section arrives.

• If a section can't be calculated — no connection, no path near the point, daily limit reached — it is drawn as a dashed straight line: undo it and tap a little closer to a path.
• Undo removes the last point and its section. A route can have up to 50 points.
• With Follow paths off, points are joined in straight lines, without any network.
• Save adds the route to your library as a GPX route, with the elevation of every point; the points you tapped are named in order. You can then follow it like any track.

Only the points you tap are sent to openrouteservice.org, never your position.

Editing a track

The Edit entry of the track's ⋮ menu lets you:

• trim the start or the end, with two sliders along the distance — the map grays out what will be removed;
• reverse the direction;
• split at a point set with a slider (starting from the profile cursor if you placed one), the map showing both parts — the second part becomes a new track;
• merge with another open track;
• simplify, with the number of points kept shown before you confirm;
• remove the times or the sensor data;
• turn a route into a track and back, delete or join segments;
• edit points one by one: move, delete, insert, break a segment.

Every edit saves a new version of the track. The file you opened stays untouched, and Share the original file always sends it as you received it. Undo, offered right after an edit, brings back the previous version.

Waypoints

Hold your finger on the map to add a waypoint to the track. Tap a waypoint to rename it, give it a note or a link, choose its icon, move it or delete it. The list of all waypoints lets you show or hide each one on the map.

Photos

Add photos, in a track's ⋮ menu, lets you pick pictures with the system picker, without any storage permission. Each one is placed by its time on the track; if the track has no times, by the position stored in the photo; otherwise at the map center. In the viewer, you can shift the time of all the photos of the track if the camera clock was off, place a photo at the map center, or delete it.

The app keeps a reduced copy without location data; nothing leaves the phone. The photos appear on the map and on the profile, go into a KMZ export — placed on the track, so sharing it shows where they were taken — into the PDF report and into backups.

Terrain elevation

A GPS altitude can be off by tens of meters, and some files have none. Terrain elevation, in the track's ⋮ menu, replaces the altitudes with those of a terrain model, after showing you the climb before and after. The result is a new version of the track; the original stays.

Exporting and sharing

Export… sends the track, through your phone's share sheet, to Strava, komoot, Garmin Connect, Google Earth, your mail or your files, in the format you need:

• GPX, for a hiking app or a GPS device, or GPZ, a compressed GPX;
• KML and KMZ, for Google Earth;
• GeoJSON, for a web map; CSV, for a spreadsheet;
• Shapefile, for mapping software (GIS), and DXF, for drawing software (CAD).

The ⋮ menu also makes an image of the map with the track and a PDF report: the map, the numbers, the profile, the splits and the waypoints, ready to print. From the library, select several tracks to export them into a single file.

Comparing two tracks

Compare with…, in the track's ⋮ menu — or Compare after selecting two tracks in the library — lays the profiles of two tracks over each other and lists the differences: distance, climb, time, speed. Handy to compare two attempts at the same climb, or the planned route with what you actually did.